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Fencer Vulns
low 2.1

CVE-2008-2368 json

Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 stores passwords in cleartext in the UserDirEnrollment log, the RA wizard installer log, and unspecified oth…

published 2009-01-20 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2364

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 stores passwords in cleartext in the UserDirEnrollment log, the RA wizard installer log, and unspecified other debug log files, and uses weak permissions for these files, which allows local users to discover passwords by reading the files.

Patch / fix

  • pkisetup certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-14.el4
  • rhpki-ca certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-17.el4
  • rhpki-ra certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-67.el4
  • rhpki-kra certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-13.el4
  • rhpki-tks certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-12.el4
  • rhpki-tps certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-23.el4
  • rhpki-ocsp certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-11.el4
  • rhpki-util certificate system 7.3 7.3.0-20.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0007RHSA-2009:0006

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2368 updated

System: plain text passwords stored in debug log

  • Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 for 4AS pkisetup 7.2.0-7, rhpki-ca 7.2.0-6, rhpki-kra 7.2.0-5, rhpki-tks 7.2.0-5, rhpki-tps 7.2.0-8, rhpki-ocsp 7.2.0-5, +1 more Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 for 4ES pkisetup 7.2.0-7, rhpki-ca 7.2.0-6, rhpki-kra 7.2.0-5, rhpki-tks 7.2.0-5, rhpki-tps 7.2.0-8, rhpki-ocsp 7.2.0-5, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0006
  • Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 for 4AS pkisetup 7.3.0-14.el4, rhpki-ca 7.3.0-17.el4, rhpki-ra 7.3.0-67.el4, rhpki-kra 7.3.0-13.el4, rhpki-tks 7.3.0-12.el4, rhpki-tps 7.3.0-23.el4, +3 more Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 for 4ES pkisetup 7.3.0-14.el4, rhpki-ca 7.3.0-17.el4, rhpki-ra 7.3.0-67.el4, rhpki-kra 7.3.0-13.el4, rhpki-tks 7.3.0-12.el4, rhpki-tps 7.3.0-23.el4, +3 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0007

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Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.